Archives for July 2006

A new plugin to give you an idea on what is happening with your blog, be it comments, visits, or people checking out your feeds, Live will let you see it happen in real time. Live is a free WordPress plugin that lets you watch your website activity in real time. You can watch as […]

The realization that people want customized blog designs has increased the time that designers are willing to take on WordPress themes. Chris Garrett, a well known graphic designer has created 449. £449 is what it will cost you to get a design created by him, and ported over to a WordPress theme. We’ve called this […]

I have been watching the number of RSS subscribers here at Blogging Pro that are subscribing though FeedBurner. The number goes up and down, and it does not seem to corelate with the amount of traffic we get here, but I do wonder sometimes if we would have more visitors to the actual website if […]

Getting everything in one area is the ultimate goal for many of the people modifying WordPress, and today Christopher Hwang has released another such plugin, moving phpMyAdmin controls right into your admin console of WordPress. I put this together because I wanted to have access to phpMyAdmin from the admin console in WordPress. I was […]

I just attended my second Weblogger Meetup last night. If you have an interest, there is probably a group on Meetup in your area with the same interest. Some groups are huge, others are small. The Ottawa Weblogger Meetup has only been around for a little while, but last night, there was around thirteen of […]

BloxPress 2 has been called “released” today, as the theme author has decided that v1.5.6 is good enough for most people to use. BloxPress 2 is an AJAX theme where users can move, remove and add elements to the blog they are viewing, as well as hopefully making a system where blog owners can easily […]

So it looks like it was not a one time deal over at the WordPress Podcast, as they have released their second episode. You can check out their second episode at podcast.wp-community.org. Topics they cover in episode two are: WordCamp – August 5th in San Francisco. WordPress 2.1 feature preview (Thanks, Mark Jaquith!) WordPress 2: […]

A beautiful theme from Christopher Frazier, of Glued Ideas, has been recently released. Subtle, is a mainly two column theme that concentrates on making authors look good. I am really impressed with this theme, and love that the Photoshop file of the header is included to make it easy to style it for your own […]

One of the worst things sometimes is having URLs that go on forever thanks to long post slugs taken from the titles of the posts you make, and so Graeme went ahead and created a plugin to fix those post slugs. I have got sick of URLs that end in really long post slugs that […]

I am currently going through some blogging burnout, and I was wondering what others do to combat this problem. How do you keep writing on your blog, day after day, month after month? I have written thousands of blog posts over the past year, but find myself unable to do as much as I used […]